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Written by Chris Tangora
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
 The fabled DIY Mac Tablets are about as common as a sighting of a Big Foot. But they are out there. Intrepid Mac enthusiast Wei had tried to build a Mac Tablet before, but failed. That did not stop him from trying again, and this time he had success. In his Malyasian studio Wei was able to combine a MacBook and intuos3 (9x12) into an iTab. He spent from May to July working on it, waiting for parts and working some more.
If you are thinking of making your own Mac tablet, you definitely need to go to Wei's site. He has details that you will want to know before setting out on your tablet project. While building his iTab Wei ran into heat issues, cursor shaking and display pixelization that he had to overcome or live with. Go to his website to see detailed pictures of the iTab's construction and the finished tablet.
Wei Studio's iTab
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
 While this isn't a real G5, this did catch my eye. Insanely Great Mac's user nervouschimp filled the inside of the G5 tower with PC parts. Talk about an identity crisis. The interesting part isn't the PC in a Mac, but rather the mobility it has now that it is attached to a heavy duty skateboard. You either love it or you hate it. I think it is kinda odd looking, but I love the concept. Throw a different set of rims on it and I'd love it.
Take a look at the Insanely Mac Forums, post 561.
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Recycling your iMac as lamp. |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
 The early iMacs are icons of the computer industry. They broke new ground in giving computers colors and "flavors" to choose from. While their meager MHz CPU's can even come close to touching modern day machines, they are still easily recognizable by almost anybody who has been around computers for the past 10 years.
So what to do with the old iMacs that are dying off? Graeme Sheridan decided to make use of his by turning it into a floor lamp. A word of caution before you read on. The old iMacs are CRT displays. The wires inside can carry a DEADLY amount of electricity, and the tubes can implode if not handled properly. Do not remove the CRT unless you are trained in CRT handling. MacMod does NOT suggest you remove your CRT yourself.
With that said, click here to go to his mod in our misc. mod section and see how he did it.
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Duct Tape can do anything. |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
Okay. So all modders know that Duct Tape can fix almost anything. We've also seen a lot of stuff made out of the wonderfully tacky material. But now we get to see it used for something, err, good? The Duct Tape Server II (DTS II) is the second of the duct tape servers. I missed out on the first one, so this is new to me. The original Duct Tape Server (DTS I) collapsed, so this one is built a bit more rigid and with more sides to support it's weight.
DTS II is made out of over 11 rolls of Duct Tape (9 gray, 2 translucent & a bit of black) and packs a modest computer to top. Running a 2.2 GHz Pentium with 1GB of DDR RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. The DTS II was used as a Teamspark server, FTP server and Armagetron Tournament in the Million Man Lan which finished up on the 6th.
Duct Tape really can do just about anything.
From DuctTapeServer.com via engadget, with a thanks to Jacob.
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Japanese Anime Mod a unique taste |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Saturday, 05 July 2008 |
 Japanese modders Kanna Higashi & Katsuya Matsumura have a unique taste, Anime. They have built a simple computer with an extraordinary case named "KANA ". The Anime character is based around Vinyl Chloride Pipes (PVC) and Styrene Foams (Styrofoam), with a modest 1GHz CPU on the inside. The exterior was made with a resin, then painted and re-assembled.
The computer was built originally back in the day (2004), this is still an interesting mod to take a look at. Lots of details went into making the mod.
ERN005-PC *KANA* via kh-vids.net
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Overclocking the MacPro made easy |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 |
 So this looks pretty promising from our German friends at ZDNet.de. ZDNet has released an application that allows you to overclock your Mac Pro for free. The ZDNet Clock Tool 1.0 for Mac Pro allows you to grab some extra processor powers for all Mac Pros. It has been tested with the first generation and the latest generation of the Mac Pro with some success. According to the article on ZDNet.de the 2.66 GHz first generation MacPro can run at 3.1 GHz and remain stable, while the recent MacPros start off at 2.8 GHz and can be clocked up to 3.24 GHz.
The overclocking does come at some cost, mainly a possibly unstable system and an increased system clock. ZDNet is working on fixing the clock issues with future releases, but the unstable atmosphere may never go away (as that is the nature of over clocking). Waking up from a standby mode may cause the overclocking to reset, and the app may even cause some Mac Pro's to not be able to reboot.
This software seems more like a beta than a release, but if you are interested in overclocking in a safe way (a hard reboot sets it back to normal) give this a look. No reports of totally hosed systems yet, so it is far safer than a hardware hack.
Read more at ZDNet.de via MacRumors.com
Download ZDNet Clock Tool 1.0 here.
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Leopard Peeps - Tweaking your Terminal |
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Written by Jacob Thomason
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 If you are anything like me, you live in Terminal. Over the years Mac OS X has become a very beautiful OS and looks nice. With the release of Leopard, Apple finally gave Terminal the much needed upgrade. You can now have multiple tabs, window groups, and even theme your window. Thats all well and good, but Apple left off some pretty important parts, like color coded text for highlighting different things in code and your directory structure. Also, the stock themes that Apple offers are kinda lacking.
So, during my quest to improve some of these pitfalls, I came across Todd Werth's blog on Infinate Red. Todd details how you can add color coding and a new theme he created thats quite nice, simple and black. So, if you live in Terminal as much as I, this is def worth a look.
Todd's install instructions
O yea, on a similar note. Every wondered what "sudo rm -rf /" would do to your mac? Watch!
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
 This is a unique mod. Now I know that I've said that before, and many people have said it about their mods other mods. But when I say unique I mean it in every sense of the word. As far as I can tell there is no computer case like this anywhere, an entire case made out of granite. Yes, the heavy weight stone case weighs over 72 kilograms (over 158 lbs) with all the parts installed, the exterior parts of the case (before the power supply case) weighs 35 kilos (77lbs).
This is a really nice mod in my opinion. The computer would be a pain in the ass to maintain, but you can never go wrong with the look of granite. Granted once you installed it, you better be sure you don't need to move it.
From Bit-Tech.net
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